Useful Oral Health Facts and Tips for Halloween

Limiting the number of houses visited by your children on Halloween may help safeguard oral health. Halloween should not be a time when children expose their teeth to harmful substances.

Key takeaways:

• Have alkaline foods such as milk and cheese on Halloween night to help neutralize the buildup of acid in the mouth.
• Parents should stop their children from eating sweets and chocolates at least one hour before bedtime on Halloween.
• Children should be supervised when brushing their teeth before they finally retire for bed on Halloween.

It is not the amount of sweets consumed that cause tooth decay – it is how often they are eaten. Sugar causes the bacteria in plaque to produce acids. It is these acids which attack children’s tooth enamel and cause tooth decay.

Read the full story here

http://www.dentistry.co.uk/2011/10/27/oral-facts-and-tips-healthier-halloween/

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Dr. Kishanie Wijesinghe Little BDS

Dr. Kishanie Little is passionate about delivering excellent dentistry and dental restorations that are life-like and indistinguishable from natural teeth. She believes that restorations (fillings/crowns/veneers) should look beautiful – and that they should last. Dr. Little keeps abreast of new developments in restorative dentistry through post-graduate training.

Dr. Little is also an experienced Facial Aesthetistician, including Botulinum toxins (such as Botox) and Dermafillers. She appreciates how simple and subtle changes to smooth and relax muscles can “freshen” a face, to look younger.

In her personal time, she loves to cook, read, run, practice yoga and pilates, play a bad game of tennis and am now learning to play golf. She loves Art and Theatre and support the Tate Modern. She also enjoys writing and has a book in the works.